ISO(2,1) CHIRAL MODELS AND QUANTUM-GRAVITY IN 2 + 1 DIMENSIONS

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作者
SALOMONSON, P [1 ]
SKAGERSTAM, BS [1 ]
STERN, A [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ALABAMA,DEPT PHYS & ASTRON,TUSCALOOSA,AL 35487
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10.1016/0550-3213(90)90382-N
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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We study gravity in 2 + 1 dimensions on the manifold M = D2 × R. A specific choice of boundary conditions leads to an equivalence of the system with a chiral Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model associated with the group ISO(2,1). The model is written on the boundary S1 × R of M. We find induced representations of the corresponding Kac-Moody and Virasoro algebras with zero Virasoro anomaly. © 1990.
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